Source: mate-sensors-applet Version: 1.8.0+dfsg1-1 Severity: wishlist Since libxnvctrl0 and libxnvctrl-dev are in the main section (rather than contrib), m-s-a can be safely built with nvidia sensors support without the need to move it to contrib.
It will require a simple build-dep on libxnvctrl-dev and a new mate-sensors-applet-nvidia binary package which will depend on libxnvctrl0. No nvidia-settings (which is in contrib) required.